GREAT VINTAGE Street Scene Film Footage Found – Newark, New Jersey: It is not very often that new and fresh period prewar
street scene film footage is found today. Check out an entertaining short film showing cars, trucks, buses and streetcars at
Broad and Market Streets in Newark, New Jersey today on TheOldMotor.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQUJrK8aVeA
http://theoldmotor.com/?p=135595
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What makes this recently discovered film footage?
The Youtube poster does not make any reference to it being recently discovered.
Here it is in its entirety. Not recently discovered. Part of the Prelinger Archives which was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002. The segment on Youtube starts at :55.
We've all probably seen bits of an pieces of this recycled as stock footage in documentaries over the years.
https://archive.org/details/6221_Sightseeing_in_Newark_N_J_01_53_07_00
https://archive.org/details/prelinger
http://www.panix.com/~footage/
http://www.prelinger.com/titles.html
It's what "The Old Motor" says. Not the poster.
"What makes this recently discovered film footage?
"The Youtube poster does not make any reference to it being recently discovered."
The Youtube poster Published it on Dec 20, 2014
Thanks for all the further details